Julie Tilsen, MA, LP, Ph.D.

Minneapolis, MN
Phone: 612.462.3707
Email: julie@2stories.com
Web: www.2stories.com

Julie Tilsen, Ph.D. lives on the traditional and unceded lands of the Dakota and Anishinaabe peoples. She is the author of Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities (Routledge, 2021); Winner of the AASECT 2022 Book of the Year Award; Narrative Approaches to Youth Work: Conversational Skills for a Critical Practice (Routledge, 2018), and Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth: Transcending Homonormativity & Constructing Preferred Identities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013) as well as a variety of professional articles and book chapters.  

Julie is community faculty in the Youth Studies Program of the University of Minnesota, and recipient of the Minnesota Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Distinguished Service Award (2011). Her work is featured in several counselor training videos produced by Alexander Street Press, and Sage/UPG Media. Julie is a hard-core fan of the University of Minnesota Gophers Women’s Hockey team and likes drinking cold press.  She is probably outside throwing a ball for her dog, Bumper.



Julie Tilsen, Ph.D. Dissertation